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SYDNEY, Australia-Australian telecom carrier Telstra Corp. said it appointed Solomon (Sol) Trujillo chief executive officer and as an executive director of the company beginning July 1. He will replace Dr. …

SYDNEY, Australia-Broadcast Australia subsidiary The Bridge Networks will team with Telstra on a year-long trial of Australia’s first multi-channel mobile TV service using digital video broadcast for handheld (DVB-H) technology. …

SYDNEY, Australia-Telstra Corp. said it plans to launch a fixed short message service early next year. Telstra has a branded SMS-capable phone on sale in Australia for the service, it …

SYDNEY-Australian wireless carriers Optus and Vodafone Australia formalized an agreement first announced in August to share third-generation network sites and infrastructure across Australia. The carriers plan to share more than …

SYDNEY, Australia-Australia’s largest wireless carrier Telstra Corp. launched Telstra Mobile Broadband, a 1 EV-DO service. The carrier said the service offers broadband-equivalent speeds with average data speeds of 300 to …

MELBOURNE, Australia-Australian operator Telstra Corp. said it launched i-mode services based on technology from Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo Inc. The content service offers Telstra customers access to a wide range …

SYDNEY, Australia-The first third-generation network-sharing agreement in Australia was announced between Telstra Corp. and Hutchison 3G Australia under a $316 million deal. The companies will establish a jointly owned venture …

MELBOURNE, Australia-Australian carrier Telstra said it plans to boost network capacity and enable high-speed services in capital cities across the country, using Nortel Networks CDMA2000 1x EV-DO equipment. “With CDMA20000 …

SYDNEY, Australia-Australia’s leading wireless carrier said it will license i-mode technology from NTT DoCoMo Inc. in the Japanese carrier’s ninth partnership for the wireless Internet technology. Telstra is licensing the …

SYDNEY, Australia-Telstra, the largest mobile operator in Australia, said it will launch push-to-talk services in June following a trial that included 12 Telstra business and government customers using 60 handsets. …

SYDNEY, Australia-Australian mobile operators Vodafone Australia and Telstra Wholesale announced a network partnering trial that will see the operators share mobile base station infrastructure in areas where duplicate coverage exists. …

MUNICH, Germany-Siemens announced that Australia’s Telstra has selected a solution from Siemens and Juniper Networks to provide new public wireless local area network services. The new hot spots will enable …

ATLANTA-Numerex Corp. announced its Australian subsidiary DCX Systems Inc. will partner with Telstra to expand the availability of its Securitel service, a derived channel based alarm security service. Under the …

RALEIGH, N.C.-Australian carrier Telstra has launched its cdma2000 1x network with a number of applications developed for Qualcomm’s BREW platform. The applications include Summus Inc.’s billiards game Nineball, photo-sharing Exego …

CANNES, France-ICQ, an instant messaging and online community owned by America Online Inc., announced it is working with wireless carriers across the world to extend its services to mobile users. …

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Australia’s Telstra Corp. Ltd. announced Sun Microsystems Inc. will provide technology solutions and services for Telstra’s new technology environment. Telstra is developing the new technology environment to lower …

LONDON—British Telecommunications plc agreed to sell Clear Communications, its wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary, to TelstraSaturn for $181 million in cash. Clear Communications purchased third-generation spectrum in New Zealand earlier …

MELBOURNE, Australia—Australian wireless carrier Telstra Corp. quickly backtracked on a plan to push advertisements to its subscribers after Australia’s communications minister harshly criticized the move.Telstra recently sent its MobileNet subscribers …

MELBOURNE, Australia—Australian wireless carrier Telstra Corp. quickly backtracked on a plan to push advertisements to its subscribers after Australia’s communications minister harshly criticized the move.Telstra recently sent its MobileNet subscribers …

SYDNEY, Australia-Australia’s Telstra Corp. and Hong Kong’s Pacific Century CyberWorks released details regarding their previously announced alliance to establish a mobile company and an Asian Internet Protocol network. The announcement …

China Chinese Internet portal Sohu.com said its content will be expanded to mobile networks in several Chinese provinces. The content, including news, stock quotes, travel information and weather data, is …

SYDNEY, Australia-Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) Ltd. joined three Australian mobile phone incumbents in securing spectrum in the 1800 MHz band. Proceeds of the spectrum auction totaled more than $809.5 million for …

SYDNEY, Australia-After four rounds and two days of bidding for Australia’s 1800 MHz wireless phone licenses, the total of standing high bids was $64.4 million. The licenses will provide extra …

NEW YORK-Nuance of Menlo Park, Calif., announced Oct. 5 it is in preliminary testing stages with 25 telecommunications and Internet companies for Voyager, its new speech interface software. Company officials …

MELBOURNE, Australia-The Australian government said the second public offer of shares in Telstra Corp. Ltd. would list Oct. 18. With this 16.6-percent sale, the government’s stake in Telstra will be …